On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 20:36 +0100, Maxin John wrote: > I have prepared the combined patch for kmemleak porting to MIPS. After > applying the patch and enabling the kmemleak in Kernel, I can see one > kernel memleak reported during booting itself: ... > unreferenced object 0x8f90d000 (size 4096): > comm "swapper", pid 1, jiffies 4294937330 (age 815.000s) > hex dump (first 32 bytes): > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > backtrace: > [<80529644>] alloc_large_system_hash+0x2f8/0x410 > [<805383b4>] udp_table_init+0x4c/0x158 > [<805384dc>] udp_init+0x1c/0x94 > [<8053889c>] inet_init+0x184/0x2a0 > [<80100584>] do_one_initcall+0x174/0x1e0 > [<8051f348>] kernel_init+0xe4/0x174 > [<80103d4c>] kernel_thread_helper+0x10/0x18 If you for the kmemleak scan (via echo) a few times, do you get more leaks? The udp_table_init() function looks like it could leak some memory but I haven't seen it before. I'm not sure whether this is a false positive or a real leak. > > Please let me know your comments. > > Signed-off-by: Maxin B. John <maxin.john@xxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> I think the last line should be more like: Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
